Workforce Planning Post-Brexit Conference: Future-Proofing Your Recruitment, Retention and Policy

Julia Onslow-Cole

Partner , Fragomen LLP

Julia Onslow-Cole is a Partner in Fragomen specializing in Global Government Strategies and Compliance. In an increasing challenging geopolitical environment Fragomen's unique Advisory Practice supports clients worldwide to optimize global mobility strategies , enhance compliance and leverage best practice in all critical immigration related policies including crisis management. Before joining Fragomen Julia was a Partner, Legal Markets Leader and Head of Global Immigration at PwC leading complex multi jurisdictional client engagements and providing strategic global immigration advice. .Julia has unique experience in crisis management .Julia has advised several governments particularly on citizenship by investment programmes and visa processing systems and communications. Julia has been liaising with Government and Business on Brexit and has given expert evidence at the European Parliament. Julia has represented business at the Prime Minister’s immigration stock take meeting and acted as an advisor to the Home Office on business, investment and growth. Julia was recently appointed to the Society for Human Resource Management''s Immigration Speciality Panel and to the board of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Julia is also a member of the Mayor of London’s Brexit Advisory Group and the Home Office EU Immigration Employer’s Representative Group. Julia is the co signatory of the ground-breaking London First/PwC Report on the impact of migrant workers in London and further report entitled ‘Global Britain’ covering Immigration options post Brexit released in November 2018. Julia sits on the Advisory Board of Migration Matters Trust, the Permits Foundation and the Migration Museum. Julia is also the Chair of the international Bar Associations Human Rights Institute Charitable Trust, a member of the Chatham House Refugee Forum and a member of the Advisory Committee of COMPASS, at the University of Oxford.

Julia Onslow-Cole

Partner , Fragomen LLP

Julia Onslow-Cole is a Partner in Fragomen specializing in Global Government Strategies and Compliance. In an increasing challenging geopolitical environment Fragomen's unique Advisory Practice supports clients worldwide to optimize global mobility strategies , enhance compliance and leverage best practice in all critical immigration related policies including crisis management. Before joining Fragomen Julia was a Partner, Legal Markets Leader and Head of Global Immigration at PwC leading complex multi jurisdictional client engagements and providing strategic global immigration advice. .Julia has unique experience in crisis management .Julia has advised several governments particularly on citizenship by investment programmes and visa processing systems and communications. Julia has been liaising with Government and Business on Brexit and has given expert evidence at the European Parliament. Julia has represented business at the Prime Minister’s immigration stock take meeting and acted as an advisor to the Home Office on business, investment and growth. Julia was recently appointed to the Society for Human Resource Management''s Immigration Speciality Panel and to the board of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Julia is also a member of the Mayor of London’s Brexit Advisory Group and the Home Office EU Immigration Employer’s Representative Group. Julia is the co signatory of the ground-breaking London First/PwC Report on the impact of migrant workers in London and further report entitled ‘Global Britain’ covering Immigration options post Brexit released in November 2018. Julia sits on the Advisory Board of Migration Matters Trust, the Permits Foundation and the Migration Museum. Julia is also the Chair of the international Bar Associations Human Rights Institute Charitable Trust, a member of the Chatham House Refugee Forum and a member of the Advisory Committee of COMPASS, at the University of Oxford.

Sophie Barrett-Brown

Senior Partner and Head of UK Practice , Laura Devine Immigration

Sophie is Senior Partner and Head of UK Practice at Laura Devine Immigration. She is a band 1 ranked leading expert in UK immigration and nationality law, described as being “the best immigration lawyer in the country” and “a force to be reckoned with in the field”; “she sees the big picture and has a thorough and sound historic knowledge which is needed in a subject matter which is constantly changing”. Sophie’s clients are drawn from all sectors and range from multinational corporations to entrepreneurs, high net worth individuals and families. Sophie has extensive experience in all aspects of UK business immigration and nationality law and EU free movement. She is skilled in all Tiers of the points-based system (PBS), including sponsored migrants, entrepreneur and investor routes as well as discretionary applications. Sophie is also widely regarded for her policy work, regularly participating in policy consultations and working parties, including managing the company’s numerous submissions to the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC), Home Office and the Home Affairs Select Committee, to which she has provided evidence on a number of occasions. Sophie is a prolific speaker and commentator on immigration topics, presenting internationally and commenting in the general media. Commended for her “generosity in sharing her knowledge” for the benefit of the profession and immigration law practice in the UK, she is a Trustee and previous Chair of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (2007-2012), with which she continues to work extensively on various working groups and training. Sophie is currently a member of the Lexis PSL Editorial Consulting Board and The Law Society Brexit Migration Strategic Reference Group.

Duncan Brown

Principal Associate at IES & Visiting Professor , University of Greenwich

Duncan has 30 years’ experience working in major HR consultancies and employment institutes, including Willis Towers Watson and IES. He also spent five years as the deputy CEO at CIPD. His clients have included National Grid, the Cabinet Office, the Department of Health, Unicef UK and the Fairtrade Foundation. He has carried out major reviews for the government of the pay determination methodologies for groups including doctors and dentists and the judiciary. He has been on expert panels on topics including employee engagement, fair pay and pensions; and he inputted extensively on the gender pay reporting proposals. He was also a member of the research team that have carried out the gender pay gap in medicine review. Earlier this year, he was confirmed in the top ten HR Most Influential Thinkers list produce by Human Resources magazine.

Amelia Bishop

Brexit Change Specialist , Amelia Bishop Consulting

Amelia Bishop leads the company in providing the capability or adding capacity to businesses that are struggling with recruitment and retention, supply chain assessment, customer review, competitor analysis and increased costs caused by the uncertainty or require assistance with understanding and managing the Brexit related changes successfully.

John Guthrie

Employment Policy Adviser , UK Hospitality

David Ferrabee

Managing Director , Teneo

David is a Managing Director at Teneo focused on strategic communications and organisational change issues across geographies and sectors. He has been working in communications, change and transformation for over 30 years. David is usually engaged when an organisation wants to make business change happen through people. That means designing, developing and delivering organisational change management programmes, helping build and embed corporate cultures, developing capabilities in leaders and teams, as well the operationalisation of any other strategies. He started in politics and journalism in his native Canada, before moving into consulting. His first major consulting assignment was the merger of Astra and Zeneca in the USA and then the UK around the turn of the century. At that time he worked in a global HR consultancy. Since then he has lead a practice in a large international PR firm, and then spent ten years building and running the boutique organisational change management consultancy Able and How. Having grown up in the family of a foreign correspondent he has carried on those itinerant ways, working on four continents for clients like Rio Tinto, Shell, Santander, GE, BP, HSBC, Qtel, Shire, ITV and many, many more. David was born in Montreal, and raised in North America, Africa and Europe. He has been based in the UK since 2000. He has joint UK and Canadian citizenship, three large children, and speaks a fluent French and English.

Tom Hadley

Business Coach & International Workforce Consultant , Hadleys Comment

Tom is an independent consultant and business coach specialising in high-impact strategic communication and workforce issues. Over the last twenty years, Tom has worked with global employers, international institutions, government ministers and two of the UK’s leading business organisations. He reaches into this to provide training and consultancy services in areas such employer brand, leadership, reputation management, research-led campaigning, employee engagement, public speaking and media training. Tom is the author of a number of White Papers and research reports on the evolving world of work and is a regular keynote speaker and media spokesperson. Campaigning activities have focused on Covid-19 business support measures, preparing for Brexit, promoting the positive role of business in society and making change happen on equality and inclusion. During his time as Campaigns Director at the REC, Tom also established the Future of Jobs Observatory to pre-empt future skills needs and the implications of AI adoption. His current work with the International Labour Organization (ILO) involves delivering advocacy training to business bodies from around the world and bespoke support in areas such as evidence-based advocacy and crisis management. Over the course of his career, Tom has been a representative on over a dozen government forums and served on the European board of the World Employment Confederation. He has a Masters in International and European Law from Assas University in Paris and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He is a qualified rugby coach and an unrepentant aficionado of 1980s French pop.

David Ferrabee

Managing Director , Teneo

David is a Managing Director at Teneo focused on strategic communications and organisational change issues across geographies and sectors. He has been working in communications, change and transformation for over 30 years. David is usually engaged when an organisation wants to make business change happen through people. That means designing, developing and delivering organisational change management programmes, helping build and embed corporate cultures, developing capabilities in leaders and teams, as well the operationalisation of any other strategies. He started in politics and journalism in his native Canada, before moving into consulting. His first major consulting assignment was the merger of Astra and Zeneca in the USA and then the UK around the turn of the century. At that time he worked in a global HR consultancy. Since then he has lead a practice in a large international PR firm, and then spent ten years building and running the boutique organisational change management consultancy Able and How. Having grown up in the family of a foreign correspondent he has carried on those itinerant ways, working on four continents for clients like Rio Tinto, Shell, Santander, GE, BP, HSBC, Qtel, Shire, ITV and many, many more. David was born in Montreal, and raised in North America, Africa and Europe. He has been based in the UK since 2000. He has joint UK and Canadian citizenship, three large children, and speaks a fluent French and English.

Seema Farazi

Manager , Fragomen LLP

Seema has over 17 years' experience in immigration law, advising global leaders in tech, asset management, banking, insurance, energy, media, education and sport and applying her depth of immigration experience to government advisory work. Seema has co-authored an Immigration and Brexit guide for a leading professional HR body, and acts as technical expert to parliamentary group, Resettlement, Asylum and Migration Policy (RAMP). Seema has extensive experience providing immigration advice to high net worth individuals on global residency and citizenship options and in complex private client cases. Before joining Fragomen, Seema was a tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, practising in international and immigration law at all appellate levels. Seema holds a Doctorate in International Law from the LSE, Master of Laws with Distinction, and Bachelor of Laws (Honours).

Rebecca Siciliano

Managing Director , Tiger Recruitment

With over fifteen years’ experience recruiting support staff, Rebecca’s expertise and naturally engaging character make her an invaluable and leading member of the Tiger team. As both Managing Director and Head of the Temporary Team in the West End, she is known for her diligent and agile working style. Her intuition plays a key role in aligning cultural fit and comes from many years’ experience placing a variety of support roles in an even wider range of different business environments. Today, Rebecca is the trusted recruitment partner to some of London’s premium blue-chip companies. From private equity firms through to creative companies, tech firms to professional services – Rebecca’s consistency, professionalism and sparky sense of humour ensures a smooth and successful recruitment process with minimum fuss.